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Overview

Call Number: SCM0282

Creator:
Findlay, Alexander,, 1874-1966.

Title: Alexander Findlay diary

Dates: 1924-1925

Physical Description:
0.02 Linear feet (1 folder)

Summary: Photocopy of a diary, with a few newsclippings, kept by Professor Findlay during his six month visiting professorship at Stanford.
Documents his daily activities while at Stanford and speaking engagements throughout the United States. Collection also includes
a note from Ian Findlay that accompanied the diary, 1980; a note by Eric Hutchinson on the typesetting, 1981; and a copy of
the 1982 published version.

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 725-1022

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Provenance

Gift of Ian Findlay, 1981.

Information about Access

This collection is open for research.

Cite As

Alexander Findlay Diary (SCM0282). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

Visiting professor of chemistry at Stanford (1924-1925). Professor of physical chemistry and director of the department of
Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Description of the Collection

Photocopy of a diary, with a few newsclippings, kept by Professor Findlay during his six month visiting professorship at Stanford.
Documents his daily activities while at Stanford and speaking engagements throughout the United States. Collection also includes
a note from Ian Findlay that accompanied the diary, 1980; a note by Eric Hutchinson on the typesetting, 1981; and a copy of
the 1982 published version.